On 2011-12-14 14:20:14 -0500, Jonathan Cook said:

Hi all, I must confess I rarely peek in at ROFF anymore, I agree it is
essentially dead. Life has been very busy for us with lots of other
things besides fishing, but in 2009 I took some time to make my own
fishing pram which I call "Stubby". I finished it up in 2010, took it
out once for a test, and then didn't have time again for a while. In
October of this year we finally took a weekend up in the mountains
(Lake Roberts in the Gila) and brought Stubby along for its first
purposeful use.

It is SMALL but my wife and I fit just fine and I can stand in the
front and cast while she reads a book in the back. It fits in my long-
bed pickup with the gate up. On the URL below are three pictures, one
of the boat, the second is the FIRST fish ever caught from Stubby,
then finally a trout I caught and kept for dinner. Although this lake
just has stockers, fishing was tricky and I didn't figure out until
the second day that all the trout were down deep and would only hit
something VERY slow. Most boat fisherman were not catching hardly
anything. I think the oxygen levels were low, and the fish were
hunkered down; water temps were fine and a few bugs around, but the
trout were not getting active at all. Once I fished deep and slow with
smallish flies, trout came regularly.

http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~jcook/pics/stubby/

Merry Christmas to all the ROFFers still out there,

Jon.

Good to hear from you, Jon. Nice pix. One thing: do not put Frank
Reid in that boat, even if it is on land!

Dave